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<td class="v">9:1</td>
<td>I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.</td>
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<td class="v">9:2</td>
<td>Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:</td>
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<td class="v">9:3</td>
<td>And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:</td>
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<td class="v">9:4</td>
<td>And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.</td>
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<td class="v">9:5</td>
<td>And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.</td>
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<td class="v">9:6</td>
<td>It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.</td>
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<td class="v">9:7</td>
<td>Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?</td>
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<td class="v">9:8</td>
<td>Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">9:9</td>
<td>For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.</td>
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<td class="v">9:10</td>
<td>All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.</td>
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<td class="v">9:11</td>
<td>In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:</td>
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<td class="v">9:12</td>
<td>That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.</td>
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<td class="v">9:13</td>
<td>Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.</td>
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<td class="v">9:14</td>
<td>And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.</td>
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<td class="v">9:15</td>
<td>And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.</td>
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